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underrated natural life skills i am enormously thankful for: the tone/Look of 'do not take my eternal chill/niceness for being a doormat; you are perilously close to that stage. shape up or else.' and the instant 180 of responses to that ...

so incredibly useful for lighting fires under asses + asserting boundaries without ever being actually mean

(me being a Tiny Ass Chick, i have to pull this out occasionally for new people both in work and elsewhere but thankfully they get the memo the first time. probably helps said velvet threats actually have weight behind them every time and i am perhaps a little too unafraid of authority lol).

website breakthrough! \o/

i've talked about how i'm moving my art logs off of wordpress to tegalog, a JP microblogging cgi program you can self-host and customize. i'll talk later about tegalog's advantages (even with the language barrier from EN), but the long and short of it is that it emulates tumblr's blog view and tumblr's archive view seamlessly, with an image focus. (versus 90% of western sites like Ghost or Publii which prioritize text).

this evening i was itching to get a live demo of the logs working. two hours later, got both the "blog" view and the "gallery/archive" view working!!

here's the blog view, nested within my default theme for kradeelav.com (I know some image links are broken and don't care; this is proof of concept): 



note the easy-to-navigate "categories" (top) and "hashtags" (below in grey) link up top. i'm gonna have the hashtags be fandom related (see: fefates), and categories being related to whether it's a work in progress, resource post, or meme.

and here's the working gallery/archive view, no edits done to the theme yet: 



you can see how easy this would be to clean up and search for posts even way back to years ago!

I was talking with (more like tempting lol) a dear friend over how useful this is already, and it's making me realize that I really need to write an EN "how to" for artists setting up tegalog for their personal sites.

next steps for me: 

* set up categories/tags and confirm they work
* crosspost ~10 posts from both logs (make sure both NSFW posts and SFW posts are working)
* make sure RSS feed for the whole (merged, new) log works did already lol, that was easy
* backup everything
* copy whole site over to new host, and confirm no broken links
* then start the log migration (100+ posts to reupload lol)